Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Wednesday, August 14, 2002

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A Brief Overview of Assessing Learning in Online Classes
George París Conway

Introduction: There are several ways to look at assessment in online learning. One way is pre-assessment, also called readiness assessment. There are a variety of available instruments that can help make this task an easy one. Another type of assessment is course/program assessment. Thankfully, this, too, can be done with a variety of available survey instruments (or they can be custom designed in-house). Last, and certainly not least, is assessing student learning, which can be the most complicated, yet is perhaps the most important. I have been involved in over two dozen online classes, and I have found that student frustration in distance learning (DL) can be attributed to two main problems: not enough feedback, and not knowing how they will be assessed. This article will focus on the latter: student assessment in DL....

 



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